Somehow Strangely Related:
Now, for all y’all Texans out there in Radio Land, this Man needs no introduction: The Once and Future Guv of Texas, Kinky Friedman and his Texas Jewboys Band:
He’s just an asshole, but dammit! He’s our Asshole an’ we love him.
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And I’m A Proud Texan ASSHOLE!
Fer the res’ of all y’all who were unlucky enuff to not be born’d in This-Great-Land, Way’ll, Please watch an’ enjoy.
An’ lemme say this by way of dis’claimering: Kinky ain’t no race-ist (Hell! He drives a pickup truck, not a Ferrari) agin’ Meskins. He is all over tongue-n-cheek an’ pokes fun at all o’ y’all Texicans. Most even at me.
Kinky Fer President in ‘16!
Feel Me?
I love all y’all (even all y’all Yankees)
Peace Out,
Y’all’s Lance-ikin
“Aren’t you scared the Lord will hit you with a light-en-ing bolt?”
“I figger if he did, He’d know what He was doin’. I’d just ride it wherever it took me.”
–Dave Gardner
(“Me no Alamo”)
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“According to Texas legend, in 1836, when Sam Houston, master of the strategic retreat,
The Raven
and the Texan Army finally allowed Santa Anna and the Mexicans to catch up with them, the Texans waded into the sleeping Mexicans at San Jacinto, yelling, “Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!” while filleting Mexicans left and right with their bayonets. The panicked Mexicans tried to scramble away, screaming, “Me no Alamo, me no Goliad!” It has come to mean, “Hey, don’t blame me. I didn’t do it.”
“All the stuff I report in this book happened. I didn’t make up any of it.”
“Me no Alamo.”
–Molly Ivins
From her wonderful book: “Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?”
Molly
Read it.
And Weep.
And laugh
Yer Ass Off
Omg this post is divine. Molly Ivins doing H Ross Perot and Kinky all in the same place. I would say Molly was a “real ring tale tooter.” This really cracked me up. Thanks for the memories.
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And he said, “I love all Y’all.”
I wish we would have elected him Governor. He would be more colorful than ‘Ma’ Ferguson!
He is running for Land Commish I think.
Damn! I miss Texas. (Need to git on home soon)
Thanks for your visit Sadie.
Kinky is one of a kind . . .you gotta love him 🙂
Right, there are always critics who dislike movies. The Godfather got bad reviews from a few as did Godfather Pt 2 and Citizen Kane, and, believe it or not, I read a 1939 review of The Wizard of Oz recently that said Somewhere Over The Rainbow was the worst song he’d ever heard in a movie musical and would quickly be forgotten. However, Best picture awards usurp such reviews and illustrate that many film critics are fucking idiots lacking neuron activity in the higher cognitive parts of their brains.
Cheers, many times over. 😉
Yes, I know it won Best Picture, et al, but it did get bad reviews as well. I love the movie and I think G. Paltrow is awesome. Dame Judi? are you kidding me? She is great in everything she does, from Henry V, to James Bond. She makes Britain. She is Britain.
Shakespeare In Love got great reviews when it came out. It also won 7 Academy Awards in ’98, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Best Supporting Actress for Dame Judi Dench.
I am putting my response here ‘cuz WP is stupid, and don’t show responses properly…
Anyway, this response is in response to your last re: Willy, The Half-Sprung Shakes-Speare…(Sorry: Just some Bro Dave there–Google him–he did a grate, great version of “Jules Sees Her”) I am joking, of course.
My third waif (wife) wrote her dissertation on Marlow. But she got hired as a Shakespearean at the local University. I met her in Brit Lit 404. (Shoulda known) Error!
I love Shakespeare and although “Shakes – in- Love” got horrible reviews, I love the movie: it speaks to the ‘writer’ in us all.
“I’m very sorry Sir. I have not read Act Two.”
“Of course you have not; I have not yet written it.”
I love that movie. Shakespeare is my secular god. I’ve performed in his plays, taught high school classes on his plays, and just love the dude’s work.
Thank you Teela.
Figger’d you’d like.
*smile*
Hey! Let’s start a blog for Kinky…
Oh, on the other hand.
Let’s Not.
Hahaha
Cheers,
-Lance
“Bit of a crooner myself”
Reminds me of the scene in “Shakespeare in Love” when the boat guy says to Will, “Strangely enough, I’m a bit of a writer me-self…wont take long to read it…I suppose you know all the book-sellers…”
Thank you for commenting and for reading.
I’d love to see it.
Kinky would be a great guv.
Texas needs more Kinky
More Molly
Less Perry
I’m sure I don’t know what I’d do without your blog.
Funny shit. At least that’s how I figger it. 🙂
Much obliged Lady
LOl~ loved this post!!!
I like him. I’m a bit of a crooner myself. Love to sing some funny songs with ’em sometime!
Kinky has run for Governor twice. Texans are too stupid to elect him.
Awesome.